Now on your restaurant bill: Obamacare fee — Several restaurants in a Florida chain are asking customers to help foot the bill for Obamacare. — Diners at eight Gator's Dockside casual eateries are finding a 1% Affordable Care Act surcharge on their tabs, which comes to 15 cents on a typical $15 lunch tab.

GOP blocks veterans bill — Senate Republicans stopped Democrats from advancing a bill that would have expanded healthcare and education programs for veterans. — In a 56-41 vote Thursday, the motion to waive a budget point of order against the bill failed, as Democrats fell short …

An Unhappy 5th Birthday For The Tea Party … Five years after the Republican Party birthed the tea party movement, mother and child have never been more at odds. — The tension between “establishment” Republicans and tea party activists was on full display today at a 5th Anniversary event in Washington.

Not safe to display American flag in American high school — Today's Dariano v. Morgan Hill Unified School Dist. (9th Cir. Feb. 27, 2014) upholds a California high school's decision to forbid students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. (See here and here for more on this case.)

Harlem pastor makes bizarre homophobic claim about president on church sign: ‘Obama has released the homo demons on the black man’ — Pastor James David Manning's homophobic sign was unveiled Sunday in front of the ATLAH World Missionary Church near the corner of W. 123rd St and Lenox Ave.

Obama announced 'My Brother's Keeper' — “Part of our message in this initiative is ‘no excuses’. Government and private sector and philanthropy and all the faith communities, we have the responsibility to provide you the tools you need,” he said at a White House event.

Bitcoin: By The Privileged, For The Privileged — A protester stands outside of Mt Gox headquarters in Tokyo after the Bitcoin banking site's collapse. — CREDIT: AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi — Every once in a while — most recently with the collapse of online exchange site Mt Gox …

De Blasio starts his war on charter schools — The de Blasio administration is blocking the opening or expansion of three Success Academy charter schools run by Eva Moskowitz. — The charter schools received approval last year from former Mayor Mike Bloomberg to operate rent-free in existing city buildings starting in the fall.

Bradley A. Smith: Connecting the Dots in the IRS Scandal — The ‘smoking gun’ in the targeting of conservative groups has been hiding in plain sight. — The mainstream press has justified its lack of coverage over the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups because there's been no …

To my fellow citizens of California: — To my fellow citizens of California: — Four years ago, I asked that you support my candidacy for governor based on my bringing an “insider's knowledge but an outsider's mind” to fix the budget breakdown and overcome Sacramento's poisonous partisanship.

Boehner says Republicans will lead, but backs away from votes — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday defended the House GOP's go-slow approach on immigration, tax reform and replacing ObamaCare, saying the party wanted to avoid repeating mistakes Democrats made and had to face the “reality” of its limited power in Washington.

HotJesus: Must He be sexy? — Editor's note: Carol Costello anchors the 9 to 11 a.m. ET edition of CNN's “Newsroom” each weekday. Watch at 9:40 a.m. ET Thursday for a discussion of the new film about Jesus. — (CNN) — Clearly Jesus was sexy. — After all, He is the Son of God.

Federal Budget Deficit Falls to Smallest Level Since 2008 — The Treasury Department reported Thursday that the federal government's deficit was $680 billion in the last fiscal year, $409 billion less than in 2012, largely because of increased revenue. — WASHINGTON — Closing the books …

Complete Results: New York Times/CBS News February Poll — The nationwide poll was conducted Feb. 19 to 23 by landline and cellphone among 1,644 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points for all adults and plus or minus 6 points for Republicans, Democrats and independents.

THE POLITICO MAG PROFILE — Understandably, Biden's mind is much on Clinton these days, and he has often told friends he thinks he can beat her because he has seen her up close and judges himself at least her equal. (Like every other prominent Democrat with a sense of self-preservation …

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